[13] Finished drawing for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Eaton Hall, Cheshire, unexecuted designs for a menagerie and banqueting house, and for alterations and additions to the house for Baron Grosvenor (later 1st Earl Grosvenor), c1766-68 (19)
    - Variant preliminary design and finished drawings for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/93

Purpose

[13] Finished drawing for adding wings, links and an entrance loggia to the house, c1768, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the principal (west) front of a three-storey, nine-bay central block, with a hipped roof, rusticated basement, and a three-bay entrance loggia supporting a portico and pediment. To either side (north and south) is a one-storey, three-bay, balustraded link, articulated by paired Doric pilasters, and a one-bay, pedimented pavilion, containing a Venetian window within a relieving arch, and ornamented with paired Corinthian pilasters, and figurative sculptures supported by acroteria

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

2d Design for Eaton Park, one of the Seats of The Right Honourable / Earl of Grosvenor (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1768
datable to 1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (819 x 337)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Notes

A.A. Tait included this drawing in his Creative Mind exhibition, and is one of the rare formal drawings to be drawn freehand. So few of these drawings survive that it is likely - according to Tait - that they were replaced by 'the more measured drawings of the Office assistants'.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
King, 1992, Volume II, p. 124
Tait, 1996, p. 46
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999

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